Fundamentals: Windows Azure: Clear Enterprise View

Sreedhar Kajeepeta01/01/12

Azure, Microsoft's cloud infrastructure for Windows developers and Web programmers, is a little more than a year old--and a lot has already changed since the platform's early days. It can be easy to get lost in the many different uses of the terms "Azure" and "fabric," not to mention PaaS and IaaS, but a more standardized taxonomy and nomenclature are making things more clear.

This report aligns Azure with popular enterprise architecture models in order to provide a sense of Azure’s scope and value for enterprise IT.